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A Breach of Promise

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I must admit that I really fail to understand what could possibly have motivated Susan Sontag to release Promised Lands,


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A Sense of Paradox

By David R. Caploe  • 

The worst thing you can say about Marcel Ophuls is that whatever his politics, artistically he is a bourgeois humanist--mawkish,


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Brown Cagers Upset Crimson, 65-60

Harvard's chances for the Ivy League basketball crown went down the drain Saturday night when it was upset by an


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Laing Blasts 'Anti-Human' Conditions

By David R. Caploe  • 

R. D. Laing, noted British psychiatrist and youth culture guru, presented a multi-faceted attack on what he termed the "antihuman"


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The Poverty of (Film) Philosophy

By David R. Caploe  • 

The recent Cambridge appearance of two plans by Alain Tanner, a young Swiss director, provides a suitable target for thought


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Eagleton Leaves Ticket; Place to Be Filled Today

By David R. Caploe  • 

Senator Thomas F. Eagleton (D. Mo.) last night announced his resignation as the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee exactly a week


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Harvard Square restaurant owners react to the Casablanca murder.

By David R. Caploe  • 

Despite the voluntary surrender Friday morning of the alleged murderer of Govert K. Van Schaik '62, former manager of the


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Herrnstein in 'The Atlantic' Predicts American Meritocracy

By David R. Caploe  • 

A Harvard professor of Psychology predicts, in the lead article of the September issue of The Atlantic that American society


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Herrnstein in 'The Atlantic' Predicts American Meritocracy

By David R. Caploe  • 

A Harvard professor of Psychology predicts, in the lead article of the September issue of The Atlantic that American society


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Teach-In 'Disrupters' Subpoena Pusey, Bok

By David R. Caploe  • 

Six members of the Harvard Administration and Faculty-including President Pusey and President-designate Derek C. Bok-were served with subpoenas yesterday by

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